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VOCM News Mid-Day Update October 1st · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update. I'm Sarah Strickland.
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  Speaker 1: NL Health Services is pulling out all the stops in
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  Speaker 1: its efforts to recruit nurses and physicians, but serious challenges remain.
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  Speaker 1: CEO Ron Johnson says some 300 nursing positions are still vacant,
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  Speaker 1: but the health authority has seen success in recruiting local
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  Speaker 1: nursing graduates.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, I think we got 95% of them in
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  Speaker 2: that range, close to 300 people. We're hoping to get
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  Speaker 2: that percentage again this year. We have international recruitment strategies.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're pulling out all stops.
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  Speaker 1: Healthcare recruitment is a top priority, says Johnson. The inability
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  Speaker 1: to staff the new urgent care clinic in Mount Pearl
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  Speaker 1: is what has prevented it from opening for its intended purpose.
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  Speaker 2: We're still continuing to struggle with recruitment and retention in
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  Speaker 2: targeted areas, like physicians in particular areas. We're still focused
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  Speaker 2: on this. We're still trying. We have all stops pulled
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  Speaker 2: out to recruit. But it is challenging. We're competing in
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  Speaker 2: an international marketplace. There's only so much capacity in the province,
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  Speaker 2: but we're focused on it. We're going to try our
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  Speaker 2: hardest to get that place open.
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  Speaker 1: The premier's office says it's looking forward to working with
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  Speaker 1: the other Atlantic provinces on economic growth in the region,
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  Speaker 1: but won't say specifically whether it supports the concept of
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  Speaker 1: the four provinces forming a single economic unit. That was
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  Speaker 1: the key recommendation of an Atlantic Economic Panel report released
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  Speaker 1: last week. The report suggested that forming a single Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: Canadian economy while maintaining separate provincial governments would help the
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  Speaker 1: region compete globally. The premier's office says Newfoundland and Labrador
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  Speaker 1: works with all Atlantic provinces on economic opportunities, especially through
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  Speaker 1: the Council of Atlantic Premiers. There will always be unique
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  Speaker 1: regional differences in economic opportunities based on resources and assets,
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  Speaker 1: according to the premier's office, and government is reviewing the
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  Speaker 1: report's observations. Passengers who helped avert disaster on board that
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  Speaker 1: fly Dubai flight are now being recommended for awards in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: The other hero, the plane's captain, who thwarted that vicious
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  Speaker 1: mid-air attack by his co-pilot, is now being treated in
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  Speaker 1: hospital in Saudi Arabia. ABC News foreign correspondent Tom Sophie
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  Speaker 1: Burridge is in Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 3: Pilots and passengers hailed as heroes. after they thwarted a
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  Speaker 3: cockpit attack on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv
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  Speaker 3: with 174 people on board, including four Americans. You can
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  Speaker 3: hear the panic on board when the passenger jet plunges.
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  Speaker 3: Israel's prime minister now saying it's too early to say
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  Speaker 3: whether this was a terror attack.
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  Speaker 1: A MUN graduate has discovered a species new to science
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  Speaker 1: among fossils preserved in Newfoundland rock dating back more than
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  Speaker 1: 550 million years. Here's VOCM's Linda Swain.
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  Speaker 4: Master of science student in paleobiology Helena Muirhead Hunt found
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  Speaker 4: the fossils at a site in Upper Island Cove known
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  Speaker 4: for its exceptional preservation of soft-bodied organisms. She says when
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  Speaker 4: the first specimen was uncovered, they knew right away that
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  Speaker 4: they were onto something really special. The fossils are close
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  Speaker 4: relatives of a group of stem stentophores known in much
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  Speaker 4: younger deposits in British Columbia. The new fossil has been
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  Speaker 4: named Edrethina obdichia, borrowed from the two Beothuk words for
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  Speaker 4: comb and beast.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.